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A free resource from Tripwire Magazine: a useful portfolio infographics design kit you can use for your personal or business portfolio or CV.
For those looking for a simple and easy to tweak portfolio, take a look at this Infographics design kit- a tool for anyone updating a portfolio or CV to make it stand out. The elements come in PDS and Ai files...
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Click a tag and generate your own topic specific E-Learning Magazine. 
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There are so many great ways to use clouds, wordstorms, wordles, tagxedo, etc for writing, research, presenting... Delete the scoop?
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The eLearning Weekly Makeover Welcome to eLearning Weekly Magazine, the next phase in the life of the popular blog eLearning Weekly. eLearning Weekly has been sharing practical “tips and tricks and lessons learned” since founded by B.J. Schone in 2007. Hundreds of posts later and hundreds of thousands of readers later, we are letting the blog grow up to the magazine it has become with new writers and editors and a creative team of elearning professionals specializing in graphics and video. The move to a magazine format has been a gradual progression ever since Schone brought on Eric Matas as the Managing Editor of eLearning Weekly in 2010.The technical aspects of the transition, from WordPress.com to WordPress.org, would follow some content changes like the interviews and LMS spotlight pieces that Matas added.
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Onstage at TED2013, Sugata Mitra makes his bold TED Prize wish: Help me design the School in the Cloud, a learning lab in India, where children can explore and learn from each other -- using resources and mentoring from the cloud. Via mjonesnnu
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A school in a cloud that could reach all hungry minds. It's happening right now! 
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March 1, 7:59 AM
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The tenth annual survey, a collaborative effort between the Babson Survey Research Group and the College Board, is the leading barometer of online learning in the United States. Based on responses from over 2,800 academic leaders, the complete survey report, "Changing Course: Ten Years of Tracking Online Education in the United States" can be downloaded here. 
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January 22, 2:39 AM
I love data: clean, meaningful, speaks for itself. The survey showed that the learning outcome of online courses vs. face-to-face is mostly the same. 12% of institutions already have or planning MOOCs, 55% have not decided. There is also data on online learning growth and # of online students, but it's till 2011, so excludes MOOCs that started 2012. Also, while most of academic leaders remain unconvinced that MOOCs represent a sustainable method for offering online courses, they do believe that they provide an important means for institutions to learn about online pedagogy.
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Meet your professional development goals to be certified as highly qualified in the area of e-learning instruction and online training. The Certificate in E-Learning and Online Teaching is designed for both experienced educators and those interested in entering the field of online teaching.
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I founded this program in 2005. It's a labor of love! Check us out. Delete the scoop?
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Examples or instances seem to be crucial for helping a learner form accurate concepts. Otherwise, according to educational researchers, the learner can overgeneralize, undergeneralize or form misconceptions. Here are six ways to help learners acquire concepts.
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We have compiled the 50 best eLearning posts of 2012 from our blog. It’s a chance for you to catch up on some interesting stuff you might have missed the last year. And for us, it’s a time to relook at the posts that trended on twitter and other social channels, and were loved by our readers. The posts are broadly divided into 3 categories – Mobile Learning, Learning Management System and Learning & Technology. Delete the scoop?
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Online learners face many challenges – from staying motivated and beating procrastination, to meeting multiple deadlines. And, as we know, e-learning students are already busy; preoccupied with many competing priorities.
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Open communications between student and school are essential. As the program advisor I'm always available via phone or email to all studennts in the E-Learning and Online Teaching Graduate Certificate program. I also send out e-mails. Stout Students (or those interested in joining our program) can call me at 530-318-1145, or write oconnord@uwstout.edu Delete the scoop?
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Implementing the principles of universal design in online learning means anticipating the diversity of students that may enroll in your course and planning accordingly. These ten key elements will greatly enhance the accessibility and usability of your course for students with and without disabilities.
Step 1: Develop content first, then design.
See explanation of these steps on www.ualr.edu Via Kathleen McClaskey, Barbara Bray 
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January 4, 1:54 PM
We have been doing this for the past three years. Establishing appropriate standards for course delivery, look and feel, and consistency goes a long way in establishing the foundation for a good learning experience for students. 
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March 23, 11:29 PM
Yes us too but it's another way to reinforce the message.
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More than a dozen powerful eLearning stats that are sure to be eye-openers, if not total mind-changers.
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No doubt about it; e-learning is a red hot field. Want to get involved? Consider our e-learning online graduate certificate; http://www.uwstout.edu/soe/profdev/elearningcertificate.cfm 
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December 27, 2012 3:23 PM
If you're thinking eLearning is a fad and maybe your business shouldn't get involved...think again. ELearning Is slowly, but surely become the new normal in today's online learning, marketing, and entertainment arena. The thing is it can work for majority of businesses out there iof someone shows how it can be implemented. will have more info for you in the coming days. Delete the scoop?
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Would you be interested to review the history of eLearning from the first “testing machine” (1924) to the “social online learning” (2010+)?
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My first exposure to computers was a very short term job at the USC computing center in the late 60's. It wasn't untile the early 80's that I got permanently fascinated with integrating technology with teaching. it's a life's work! Delete the scoop?
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Train for a new job in e-learning and online teaching. Earn your Graduate Certificate in just 10 months! 
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December 2, 2012 3:02 PM
All courses are open for enrollment now. Classes begin Jan/Feb 2013. UW-Stout's E-Learning and Online Teaching Graduate Certificate Program will help you grow your teaching career; from your front door to the world. Delete the scoop?
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Phil Hill is Executive Vice President at Delta Initiative and blogs at e-Literate. As we continue to discuss important issues such as access, affordability, and personalized learning in higher education, we would be helped by having a richer understanding of the changes that are already occurring. I would like to offer a more descriptive view to capture the growing number of approaches enabled by educational technology. The following is certainly not exhaustive, since the field is rapidly changing. In addition, not all of these models will end up thriving in the long term. My intention is simply to describe some of the primary models and ideally to reduce some of the confusion evident in public discussions. Informative Graphics! Extensive hyperlinked bibiliography ~ Dennis Delete the scoop?
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Christopher Pappas: The purpose of the http://elearningfeeds.com/ is to provide you with the more recent headlines, short descriptions of eLearning articles, and links to the articles themselves, that have been posted on the BEST eLearning websites and blogs around the world.
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This is a magazine style presentation of a number of RSS feeds from a variety of E-learning resources. There is a good deal of Moodle training content here as well. Delete the scoop?
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The Sloan Consortium, MERLOT, and our Emerging Technologies steering committee welcome you to The 6th Annual Emerging Technologies for Online Learning International Symposium (ET4Online), hosted for the second consecutive year in Las Vegas, Nevada. The conference dates for the symposium are changing, in part, to allow K-12 participants and vendors a better opportunity to join the conference live. No longer a summer conference, ET4Online is moving to spring 2013 and will stay a spring conference for the foreseeable future.
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I look forward to attending this conference. I'm hungry for new ideas that I can apply to our E-Learning and Online Teaching Graduate Certificate Program at UW-Stout. Ed-Tech is never boring. Staying with the waves of change requires balance, attention, and a future vision. Delete the scoop?
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Canadian ed tech company Desire2Learn has acquired Degree Compass, a course recommendation engine developed at Austin Peay State University with funding from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
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I like the intent of this software. The execution remains to be seen. If indeed this system can give personalized advice to students that will help them with their planning, I'm all for it. I know from my son's experience that booking time with a guidance counselor in California State Universities is a very difficult process. It can take weeks to get an appointment. Let's hope D2L blends this product into it's services in a meaningful way in the very near future. Delete the scoop?
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For as long as eLearning has been around, it has been haunted by the voices of those who aim to criticize its authenticity, viability, and quality. But is it true? Do students of traditional institutions boast more success than those who’ve chosen distance learning? Delete the scoop?
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What is the Visual Voice?
You may not be a trained graphic designer, but odds are that you can tell when things look right or not. That’s because there’s a voice in the back of your head that lets you know. At least there is in mine (but that could be the result of mental issues and/or beer).
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Products that you use are not just software - they come with professional relationships you build with the vendor, other users and experts in the ecosystem. When you become a user of a product, you belong to a world of professionals that are linked to the product. Every tool you have in your bag is like a relationship.
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Vikas Joshi was recently named one of the Top Ten’ most influential people in the corporate e-learning sector. It's useful to listen to the movers and shakers! Delete the scoop?
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Now in its fourth year, here are the new lists of the ‘Top Ten’ most influential people in the corporate e-learning sector, in the World, Europe, the UK and Asia-Pacific.
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If you're looking for folks to follow on twitter or just need to know who the experts are, here's a good place to start! Delete the scoop?
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I’m always sensitive to the elearning developers who have to work with limited resources and usually by themselves. Because of this my goal is to provide practical tips and tricks that offer real value. This year’s 2012 wrap up post features the tips & tricks shared during the past year that can be applied to your elearning courses right away.
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Articulate's Tom Kuhlman always provides solid, practical, and spot on e-learning advice. Here's his self-selected lists of tips and articles from 2012. Terrific Resource! Delete the scoop?
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E-Learning and Online Teaching - Preparing online teachers for the 21st Century - Welcome to the Google+ Homepage of the University of Wisconsin-Stout E-Learning and Online Teaching Graduate Certificate Program. Earn a certificate in as little as 10 months.
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Here's our Google+ homepage. Make a comment, request a hangout, as a question 
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January 29, 3:00 PM
Check out the site http://a4academics.com/ . Website provides academic project ideas , seminar topics ,Tutorials , Online placement preparation test and Tech blogs for engineering students.
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SEATTLE, Dec. 21, 2012 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- The revenues for Self-paced eLearning products in the Middle East reached $378.4 million in 2011. The growth rate is 8.2% and revenues will reach $560.7 million ...
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I've been working with a local expert in Quatar to offer e-learning educuation to professors in that country. I hope we'll start soon with our first groups. Reaching across the world to learn with each other should be interesting! Delete the scoop?
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E-Learning teaching and design are constantly changing. There's so much to learn. I am happy to recommend the following classes to anyone with the interest and dedication to grab their future with both hands and go for it! Delete the scoop?
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